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Bare acts > Inter-State Migrant Workmen (Regulation of employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 1978 > Section 17
 
  


 

17. Responsibility for payment of wages. - (1) A contractor shall be responsible for payment of wages to each inter-State migrant workman employed by him and such wages shall be paid before expiry of such period as may be prescribed.

(2) Every principal employer shall nominate a representative duly authorized by him to be present at the time of disbursement of wages by the contractor and it shall be the duty of such representative to certify the amounts paid as wages in such manner and may be prescribed.

(3) It shall be the duty of the contractor to ensure the disbursement of wages in then presence of the authorize representative of the principal employer.

(4) In case the contractor fails to make payment of wages within the prescribed period or make short payment, then the principal employer shall be liable to make payment of the wages in full or the unpaid balance due, as the case may be, to the inter-State migrant workman employed by the contractor and recover the amount so paid from the contractor either by deduction from any amount payable to the contractor under any contract or as a debt payable by the contractor.

 

 

 

 

 

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